Plants & Flowers

If you’re a photographer, and you have a lens that can take macro shots, then Cameron Highlands is one of the best destinations to go and lose yourself in all things tiny in Malaysia. I bet the whole country has lots of little big wonders to shoot and document, and I’m just glad ate Lolit lent me her macro lens to be able to take a few.

Some photos here were shot at the Mossy Forest, the others at Bala’s Chalet & Restaurant, and two from ate Lolit’s own garden at Desa Park 🙂

Like this:

THERE’S STILL A lot of rain going on outside, and I am here just sitting in front of my desktop not knowing what to do first. I’ve read all the news at Yahoo.com, Inquirer.net, Foxnews.com, and yet, there is nothing coming in. I have a long list of THINGS TO DO and I don’t even know where it came from or what brought it about.

All I know is that I just got back from Bataraza, and my trip there was really something I would not forget. Venice and the girls who came with me and manang Jane were hilarious the whole time.

Here’s some of the photos from that trip; they’re all straight out of the camera 🙂

Inside the coffee shop.

The cafe where we stopped by has these kettles for a collection. I love!

Who’d say a distant barangay in Palawan would have Mac desktop computers for its students… ayayayayay!

Maruyog Cafe Resort is where we stopped by in Brooke’s Point, Palawan for coffee and that famous coconut pie. The name of the place is also the name of the mountain that one can see from the place — Mt. Maruyog.

A Pala’wan mother and her child at the RTNMC Foundation Hospital. The Pala’wan is a group of indigenous peoples in Palawan.

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I have not published it because I’m still thinking if I really need a page. And yet, and yet… I’ve started filling it with my photos, and so far, I like what I see. I’ll keep it handy for whatever; maybe I would need it someday.

Debra and the tilapia fish she caught in a former mine tailing pond.

My travel group with Ms. Jane Timbancaya-Urbanek, community relations manager of Nickel Asia.

At the Post-Mining Ecosystems Restoration Laboratory in Rio Tuba, Bataraza.

Found a tiny sun bird on top of a tree in Rio Tuba, Bataraza

A dried branch caught in a vine.

Red bugs cavorting on an okra.

Last month, I went on a quick departure to a mining town in southern Palawan called Bataraza with some good friends: manang Jane Timbancaya-Urbanek, manong Caloy Fernandez, Dr. Oscar Evangelista, Debra Pritchard, Mike Doblado, Marcus Swanopoel, and my sorority sister Bing de Guzman.

I was happy to make the trip; the place is surprisingly refreshing despite the mining operation that is going on, and the friends I was with were all game about a lot of topics.

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I dedicate all these photos to him… photos I’ve taken just outside the house after a lonely rain.

Except for the floods it gives, we really need to give rain proper credit for watering our crops; taking part in washing off dirt anywhere; bringing down pollution from the air; it’s free air conditioning; it’s a major water component; it brings suitable conditions for many kinds of ecosystem…

And it masks tears and soaks them away.

Wet wings make flies respect rest.

Washed to be lush.

Another Eurasian Tree Sparrow, another tree…

Our balimbing (starfruit tree) bears fruit… but its flowers are washed down by the rain.